Welcome to the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring. The Center is dedicated to creating the open and efficient exchange of research and ideas. In doing so, we seek to advance the production, dissemination, and uptake of evidence-based practice in ways that improve the effectiveness of practice and, ultimately, create stronger, more enduring mentor-mentee relationships.

This mission aligns with the sage comments that of Father Donald J. Monan, Chancellor of Boston College, made last year at UMass Boston Chancellor Keith Motley's breakfast, launching the Center:

I simply wanted to say a word to confirm what the Chancellor was talking about earlier - the importance of the Center. I’ve been involved for about 20 years, going all the way back to the beginning of the National Mentoring Partnership....We heard this morning the importance of someone who is a scholar and has a scientific methodology to reflect on what works and what doesn’t. The richness of the evidence is critical to improve the outcomes for practitioners. So that the further this goes on, the more we need a Center."

October 2013 - The Center for Evidence Based Mentoring receives a $499,323 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to explore youth initiated mentoring. Rhodes, along with colleagues Renée Spencer, Ed.D. (Boston University), and David Van Patten (Dare Mighty Things) will conduct in-depth research to explore the individual, dyadic, programmatic, and underlying factors that lead to enduring youth-initiated mentoring (YIM) relationships established through the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program (NGYCP).

September 2013 - First Short Course @ UMB to be held at the Center this Sept. 30-Oct. 1. We will focus on the the needs of youth in the foster care system.

September 2013 - The MacArthur Foundation and HIVE describe Connected Learning. As a member of the Connected Learning Research Network, Jean Rhodes is exploring the role of intergenerational relationship in this new paradigm for learning.

August 4,2012 Orlando, Florida: Sarah Lowe, a recent graduate of the clinical program and researcher in the Rhodes Lab, recently received the APA, Division 27 (Society for Community Research and Action) Dissertation Award. The purpose of the annual dissertation award is to identify the best doctoral dissertation on a topic relevant to the field of community psychology. More